Harold Cox

While we saw in the state an indispensable instrument for establishing a minimum standard of life for the common man, he dreaded the slackening of moral fibre as a result of getting 'something for nothing'.

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics – they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.

But what you must never forget is that every one of these figures comes in the first place from the chowky dar [village watchman], who just puts down what he damn pleases.

Mr. Cox was a very polished speaker, and stated the case with which he was dealing with great intellectual force...[he was an] incorrigible individualist".

[8] In an obituary for The Economic Journal, Charles Mallet wrote: The following works of Harold Cox are available through Internet Archive: